{"id":58743,"date":"2020-01-17T09:31:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58743"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:31:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:31:39","slug":"syria-intense-fighting-in-idlib-kills-39-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58743","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Intense fighting in Idlib kills 39 &#8211; monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1931516-1351894864.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1931516-1351894864.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIRUT, Jan 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Intense fighting between pro-government forces and jihadist-led fighters in Syria\u2019s Idlib province killed at least 39 fighters overnight, a war monitor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government and allied forces took two villages in their advance towards<br>the key town of Maaret al-Numan, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, rebels launched a counter-offensive in the eastern countryside of the Idlib Governorate Thursday afternoon, as they attempted to retake the areas they lost to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Led by Hay\u2019at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) and the so-called \u201cSyrian National Army\u201d (SNA), the rebels began their counter-assault by storming the Syrian Army\u2019s defenses at the town of Abu Jarif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not long after launching the attack, the rebels were able to retake Abu Jarif from the Syrian Army, as the latter was unable to secure the town since they captured it Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rebels are now working to retake three other areas they lost to the Syrian Arab Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday evening, the Syrian Arab Army launched a powerful attack at two axes in eastern Idlib; this would result in the capture of four towns from the rebels. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Jan 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Intense fighting between pro-government forces and jihadist-led fighters in Syria\u2019s Idlib province killed at least 39 fighters overnight, a war monitor said. Government and allied forces took two villages in their advance towardsthe key town of Maaret al-Numan, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Meanwhile, rebels launched a counter-offensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}